surge update...Easter Bombings Kill 22 in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD — The Iraqi capital echoed with explosions on Easter Sunday, with three suicide car bombings killing 22 or more people. Other bombs and rockets went off at widely scattered locations, paralyzing traffic and disrupting communications throughout the city.

An official in the Ministry of Interior said there were three suicide bombers who targeted the Iranian embassy as well as the residences of the Egyptian chargé d’affaires and the German ambassador, all in Mansour and nearby on the western side of the city; he said that early reports were of 20 dead and 45 wounded in the three bombings.

Separately, a police official in Kerrada, a neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, said that a fourth suicide bomber had targeted the Iraqi intelligence agency’s offices but that police shot the driver before he could detonate his bomb. Bomb disposal experts were working to defuse it hours later, he said. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with their agencies’ policies.

Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command, said that early and incomplete reports were that 17 were killed and 140 wounded, including both civilians and members of the security services. The car bombers, he said, were also wearing suicide vests when they launched their attacks. He speculated that the Mar Yosif Chaldean Catholic church in the Mansour area may have been one of the intended targets.

A spokeswoman for the church, Ann Sami Matloub, said that the church was packed with worshipers at the time but was not damaged by the blast. She said that the explosion was so close that Easter services had to be suspended for a short time until parishioners could compose themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/middleeast/05iraq.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print

[Octafish]

1. War is about as far as a nation can get from the Teachings.

It should be obvious to all, the nation is run by warmongers.

[Newest Reality]

2. War, (or in this case, occupation) ....

is GOOD for business. It is one of the most profitable rackets around.

What was whitewashed as "pin the tail on the WMDs" and "Operation Iraqi Freedom Without an Anesthetic" now reveals itself as a trifecta of rewards, as is the occupation of Afghanistan. The lives of people over there and how they live are not, to me, an issue that brings much concern over here.

Never, in a million years, would the truth about the invasions been palpable to the people and we still see a cloud of ignorance and denial settled over the body politic about the matter.

If the truth had been told it might have gone something like this:

"My fellow Americans, we are about to embark on a mission to ensure the consumptive, modern way of life that has, and will, always manufacture your consent. Our goal is to enrich the Military/Industrial State, award huge contracts that pay-out billions to favored contractors, and to create a strong, military presence while eventually dominating the Middle-Eastern block of nations. Of course, I know you will support this aggressive campaign because our control of the resources there, means you can continue to live the way we have decided you should. What would you do without the oil that courses through the veins of modern life, ey?"

Imagine a President appearing on the glowing, blue altar of cultural dogma stepping up to reveal such things.

Also, are things really going well for us, the common people, here, after all that? Who is benefiting? Follow the money.

[Turbineguy]

3. As long as the other guys keep killing Americans

we'll stay. That's how it seems to work. In a way, suicide-bombing is the ultimate Ponzi Scheme.

[Octafish]

4. That may explain the SAS commandos dressed up as 'resistance fighters' who killed the Iraqi cop...

The Salvador Option Exposed

[malaise]

5. I remember when they caught the two Brits posing

as Arabs. War is profitable.

[Octafish]

6. Cheney.

Warmongering personified.

[malaise]

7. 100% accurate

Thanks